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Why do you think they continued to do it? Ps: I work for meta, but not in AI related orgs.
by tehlike 1mo ago
Why do you think they continued to do it?
Ps: I work for meta, but not in AI related orgs.
- SV_BubbleTime 1mo agoIt’s obvious? They still hate us and hope we die… at least every movement they make seems like that. I kid. I’m all for meta releasing more open weight models. I mean… I’m also 1000% certain that China is going to undercut whatever they can do if even not a technology reason but a legal reason. I’ve seen some wild stuff posted that has been made with Minimax… things a US company could never allow to happen.
- amarcheschi 1mo ago>wild stuff posted that has been made with Minimax… things a US company could never allow to happen. Such as?
- echelon 1mo agoMinimax has NO filters of any kind, and it's roughly Veo/Sora-quality. You can generate a video of just about any thought in your head at all. IP holders and politicians will not like that. Granted, human artists have always been capable of this. It's just never been worth it to bring most ideas into fruition. Now there's minimal cost to do so. Early Sora, Grok Imagine, and Seedance 2.0 had few filters. Disney, Nintendo, et al. eventually stopped them all from using their IP, which made the appeal fade for a lot of users. Kling and Nano Banana can still generate IP oddly enough.
- bastawhiz 1mo agoBecause it took off. All of a sudden they captured more customers than they could have imagined they would have, and throwing away the lead they unintentionally gave themselves (in terms of usage and mindshare) would have undone all of that and more.
- dolmen 1mo agoCustomers or just consumers?
- axegon_ 1mo agoI've worked long enough at large tech giants to know how things really are. Also a large part of the reason why I'd never join one again, no matter what they have to offer. Meta, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Openai, anthropic, oracle, nvidia, Microsoft, etc. - same shit with a different badge on top.
- truncate 1mo agoTBH, having worked at all big-tech, startup and mid-sized companies, pretty much most has some major pros and cons of their own, and these days ever more so. With certain big-tech at-least there some chance of getting decent WLB.
- axegon_ 1mo agoI prefer hectic work and impossible deadlines at 3am over the flat-but-not-really hierarchy and the constant dick-measuring contests.
- truncate 1mo agoI don't think they are mutually exclusive, that if you take one you give another. TBH, its more about the team you work with than startup vs big-tech company thing. I don't know how many of big-tech have flat hierarchy, at-least not the ones I've worked at and the people/team culture have definitely better. Were there times there was bureaucracy and all, sure, but I personally would take take good WLB most of the year, over fucking up my health/relationships over making some random software on claude code all night that these days anyway most want to be AI slop. If I've the energy to work extra, I'd work on my own hobby software projects. That said, this or that, its all personal preference. So no wrong way of life here. Whatever, you want your life to be.
- ternaryoperator 1mo agoI don’t think Nvidia fits on that list. It’s a company with a pro-employee culture, very few layoffs, and many employees who have been there a long time.
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